I still would make the same choice.

To spend their days working with their hands, in quiet prayer, and in daily song.

Lately were sung

Toads and serpents make their nests

Where the palmers did throng

Weep, weep, o Walsingham, whose days are nights

Blessings turned to blasphemies, holy deeds to despites

Sin is where Our Lady sat, Heaven is turned to Hell

Satan sits where Our Lord did sway, Walsingham, o, farewell

I cannot tell you how heartened and pleased I am about everything I hear about you; the whole world is ecstatic. They are right, too: a King of twenty and a Queen of nineteen, all their actions are full of humanity, generosity, prudence and wisdom. … in a word my heart is overjoyed, and I pray God to preserve you for the good of your people, for the world, for your family, and for your old Mama…

Powerful women in the Mediterranean region during the Ancient times → on screen:

HEDY LAMARR as DELILAH

SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949)

𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐇 𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐆𝐄𝐑 as 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 / 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐈 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃

We're cousins, then. We are sisters.

MARY & EDITH | DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE